This is in regard to Lemmy.world blocking piracy communities from other instances. This post is not about whether you agree with the decision. It’s about how the admins informed their users.

A week ago Lemmy.world announced their Discord server. This wasn’t very well received (about 25% downvotes, which is rather bad compared to other announcements). The comments on that post were turned off, presumably to avoid backlash.

Before that, announcements about the instance used to be posted to [email protected]. This time, the information was posted on the Discord server instead.

I don’t agree with this. Having to use a proprietary platform to participate in an open-source one goes against the very purpose for me, especially when the new solution isn’t really an improvement (as before the information about the platform was closer to it).

Edit: Corrected the announcements community name.

Update: Lemmy.world finally released an announcement and promised they would inform about similar actions and gather feedback in advance in future.

  • KrisND@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    Why would I be active in the DC when its supposedly purpose was announcements about the site and whenever this site is down?

    Could you please clarify your source, the discord post as OP mentioned doesn’t read that. Lemmy.world announced their Discord server. And if you looked around the main purpose isn’t focused around announcements. It seems there was miscommunication and it wasn’t posted to lemmy, mistakes happen.

    “Why would you assume/expect people join in a DC server to interact?”

    That is sort of the point of Discord as a instant message community platform.

    I joined the discord because:

    • The internal lemmy direct messages sucks.
    • I already use discord anyways.
    • It’s a great way to not spam unrelated comments. etc

    Why did you join?